This is not a Sci Fi or fantasy book but I found it very interesting. It is one my son's girlfriend (who is a public relations student) recommended to him. The title is:

The Tipping Point - How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.
by Malcolm Gladwell

On the back cover there is a short synopsis, that I don't think will ruin it at all but might get someone interested in looking it up:

The Tipping Point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed best-seller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.

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"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us"
-Helen Keller

Firstly, The Age of Fire books by E.E. Knight. The series in non complete as yet and is about dragons. The books are Dragon Champion, Dragon Avenger, Dragon Outcast and Dragon Strike. The 5th book, recently released, is Dragon Rule. I'd add in a synopsis, but I don't know how to do that without spoilering it lol. If you have read Graham Edwards Ultimate Dragon Saga, you'll love these.

And to the next set... The Ultimate Dragon Saga by Graham Edwards *Grin* This trilogy consists of Dragoncharm, Dragonstorm and Dragonflame. Based on a small group of dragons that find themselves travelling to help the world 'turn' true and reach the next age, Dragoncharm is one of my favourite books, and the rest of the series proves as enjoyable.

As a tie in, Graham Edwards other series, the Stone series, is pretty awesome. The trilogy consists of Stone and Sky, Stone and Sea and Stone and Sun. This trilogy follows two people taken to a new world by one of the main antagonists from the Ultimate Dragon Saga trilogy. It's a great series and leaves me boggled after reading it due to the orientation of this world, which is vertical!

I'm not sure how to describe the series, definitely fantasy but not hard core. Based in this world with a mystical twist to it. A fair bit of action and little to no romance but loads of interaction. I really enjoyed the books and have Walking Dead on order at the library already.

I would also recommend books by Terry Pratchett and David Eddings. I have loads by them and love them. Other ideas from my book shelf:

The Pelinor series by Alison Croggon. This has four books:

The gift

The riddle

The crow

The singing

I really enjoyed these, they were very hard to put down and had some good, unexpected twists in them.

I also like Trudi Canavan. I found the Age of Five series better than the Black Magician Trilogy, though both were good. They were a bit more predictable in places than the Pelinor series though.

Temeraire by Naomi Novak is also a good read. She has five in the series now with more still to come (possibly another five). They are all very readable, but I personally preferred the earlier books to the later ones.

What a lot of people really like is if you search David Eddings, it gives you similar books or books that the author recommends. For authors like him, it breaks the books down into their series so you can read them in order.

We have just read Maria V Snyder's first in her next set, Storm Glass, the Opal Cowan series, waiting for Sea Glass, which was published yesterday. She was a minor character in the first set and now is the main one in these. An excellent read, very fast action and hard to put down.

Keruval's son has the first set of 3, which he is going to send to us. From Maria's web site, she has just finished the 4th in the the Study series, called Ice Study, imminently due for publication. There is a 5th in the offing as well.

Another new author we have found is Gay Longworth, she is English and lives in London. They are detective fiction but again very hard to put down once you start them. Her main character is a female DI called Jessie Driver, with the usual obnoxious male colleagues to contend with. There are only 2 books so far, Dead Alone and the Unquiet Dead. Both keruval and I read them both almost at one sitting each, but did finish them at one a day. Very gripping writing with quite a lot of complex plotting going on.

Keruval's son has the first set of 3, which he is going to send to us. From Maria's web site, she has just finished the 4th in the the Study series, called Ice Study, imminently due for publication. There is a 5th in the offing as well.

I hadn't heard of more books in the Study series Can you send me a link to the site you are talking about please

Hi Toni,
Went back and looked again and found there were only the 3 Study books mentioned. I had it bookmarked on my computer last week,but had a very serious virus that meant I had to have my hard drive re-formatted so lost a lot of info

Anyway, knew I wasn't madand had read excerpt from Ice Study. So went hunting again

Read the Wheel of Time up to the 5th book, but then got fed up with the way the "girls", treated the "boys", as if they also had not grown up and should be treated like men.

It now is going on to the 15th book, having been taken over for completion on the death of Robert Jordan.

Much preferred the Stephen Donaldson's, Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. Went through the 1st and 2nd series and on to, the Last Chronicles, am now waiting for the third in the final trilogy. Much more believable than Wheel of Time.
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